The year is AD 79, and you are in Pompeii, a small,pleasant Roman town in the south of Italy. You’ve
spent most of your life here, but Pompeii isn’t your hometown. You were born in Greece, and Greek is your first language, although Latin is the language of the Roman Empire. As a young man you were taught to read and write in Greek, and you learned about the poets, writers, and thinkers of Greece. You had dreams of becoming one of them yourself.